The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Kyounghee (Kay) Min, director of corporate development, Cisco

Kay Min joined the Cisco corporate development team in 2011 and is responsible for all of Cisco’s acquisitions and investments in routing, optical networking, and photonics markets which continue to display dramatic increases in speed and component integration.

Min also has the geographic responsibility for Canada. Her extensive experience in roles of increasing responsibility in the product development and product management sides of optical networking includes both large companies – Pirelli and Lucent – as well as startups, Photuris, as a founding team member, and Mahi. A transition into investment banking and venture capital investing further broadened her experience.

She earned an MBA from Georgetown University and a BSc in ceramic engineering from Rutgers University.